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authorJovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>2011-03-24 02:42:51 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-24 05:46:36 +0300
commitfc3d8767b2b6de955579852d7a150f1734265eaf (patch)
tree282762d459af3ebdf0bf8661a9422d55fc74dbb1 /fs/proc
parent0db0c01b53a1a421513f91573241aabafb87802a (diff)
downloadlinux-fc3d8767b2b6de955579852d7a150f1734265eaf.tar.xz
procfs: fix some wrong error code usage
[root@wei 1]# cat /proc/1/mem cat: /proc/1/mem: No such process error code -ESRCH is wrong in this situation. Return -EPERM instead. Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index c3af15e9c070..daba13653256 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -775,7 +775,8 @@ static ssize_t mem_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
if (!task)
goto out_no_task;
- if (check_mem_permission(task))
+ ret = check_mem_permission(task);
+ if (ret)
goto out;
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -845,7 +846,8 @@ static ssize_t mem_write(struct file * file, const char __user *buf,
if (!task)
goto out_no_task;
- if (check_mem_permission(task))
+ copied = check_mem_permission(task);
+ if (copied)
goto out;
copied = -ENOMEM;
@@ -917,6 +919,7 @@ static ssize_t environ_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (!task)
goto out_no_task;
+ ret = -EPERM;
if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
goto out;